Subject: MIRNEWS.360
From: "C.M. van den Berg" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 20:27:22 +0200

MIRNEWS.360                                            12 JUNE 1997

Progress-M35: This freighter is on schedule for late this month.  If 
launch and flight will go as planned Progress-M34 will have to leave the
aft docking port (+X-axis) the day before the arrival of Pr-M35. 
Apart from the normal cargo a badly needed component for the
Antares-transmitter on board MIR has to be delivered by Pr-M35.  Until the
restoration of MIR's satellite relay system  audio and video downlinks will
be limited to groundstation  passes. 

Progress-M34:  It might be possible that before the departure for decay in
the Earth's atmosphere the Russians will execute an autonomous flight with
the old freighter to test the TORU system.    Thusfar no confirmation about
this operation.  

Radio-amateurisme:  The fact that the MIR-crew is active again on the
radio-amateur-frequencies confirms that the situation on board though not
fully back to normal ,  improved to such a degree that they got more time
to relax.  During almost every pass within our range the amateur station in
the 145 mc band is active, mostly in Packet Radio, but also in Phone. Mike
Foale (call KB5UAC) or the Russians (R0MIR) can be heard on MIR's downlink
145.800 mc.  (uplink 145.200 mc).  The crew transmitted a P/R message in
which they said that they planned to increase P/R traffic.   In another P/R
message they reported that the Safex-2 transponder in the Priroda Module is
operational again.  Downlink is 437.950 mc, uplink 435.750 mc. To open the
transponder a CTCSS tone of 141.3 herz is needed.  During docking
operations with Soyuz-TM- and Progress-M ships and Shuttles Safex-2 will be
OFF to avoid interferences on crucial  systems. 

Chris v.d. Berg, NL-9165/A-UK3202